Ex-mayor of LA suburb gets prison after fed probe

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former mayor of a Los Angeles suburb has been sentenced to a year and nine months in federal prison after pleading guilty to witness tampering and making a false statement to the FBI in a bribery investigation.

The Pasadena Star News reports ex-Rosemead Mayor John Tran received the sentence Monday. He'd faced a maximum of two years in prison.

Prosecutors originally charged Tran with bribery and he later pleaded guilty to taking payments totaling more than $10,000 from a real estate developer-turned-FBI informant. Tran later changed his plea to not guilty after saying new information could have discredited the developer.